Voting is Pointless because I have a strong-interest in Democracy

[Husar]

I encourage everyone not to vote. The fewer people that I can get to vote, the more my individual vote matters.

So you want to make people feel disenfranchised and at the same time tell them to get armed. Are you looking forward to that civil war?

[ICantSpellDawg]

So you want to make people feel disenfranchised and at the same time tell them to get armed. Are you looking forward to that civil war?

No, most of what I say is half true, if that.

I encourage everyone to vote and become involved in politics, even when they disagree with me.

I discourage firearms ownership among my friends who drink, have another substance abuse problem, are hotheads, seem prone to depression. I advise anyone with children to keep firearms either out of the house or locked away like Fort Knox.

But anyone not on this list through these things has a civic duty to bear arms and to vote.

[Husar]

No, most of what I say is half true, if that.

I encourage everyone to vote and become involved in politics, even when they disagree with me.

I discourage firearms ownership among my friends who drink, have another substance abuse problem, are hotheads, seem prone to depression. I advise anyone with children to keep firearms either out of the house or locked away like Fort Knox.

But anyone not on this list through these things has a civic duty to bear arms and to vote.

The smiley was meant to say that your comment was genuinely funny, I didn't take it as 100% serious.

Otherwise you are spot on of course.

[a completely inoffensive name]

I encourage everyone not to vote. The fewer people that I can get to vote, the more my individual vote matters.

That strategy only works if the people you encourage are from your state. Otherwise it doesn't matter due to the wonderful electoral college.

No, most of what I say is half true, if that.

I encourage everyone to vote and become involved in politics, even when they disagree with me.

I discourage firearms ownership among my friends who drink, have another substance abuse problem, are hotheads, seem prone to depression. I advise anyone with children to keep firearms either out of the house or locked away like Fort Knox.

But anyone not on this list through these things has a civic duty to bear arms and to vote.

Why do you have to remind me that you are in fact a reasonable human being at times?

[Beskar]

This is an interesting video for the issues with FPTP system, part of why some here might feel disenfranchised and why I for example, advocate more STV style voting.

[Husar]

This is an interesting video for the issues with FPTP system, part of why some here might feel disenfranchised and why I for example, advocate more STV style voting.

Good luck getting a reply, I've posted that multiple times already but FPTP people seem too indoctrinated to care while their votting system is destroying their country and taking away their liberties!!!

It's actually a series of videos that also explains the other issues that FPTP countries have.

People will never get around the truth that the only perfect country Americans ever designed is modern Germany!

[Papewaio]

I wonder what system Australia uses?

[Pannonian]

This is an interesting video for the issues with FPTP system, part of why some here might feel disenfranchised and why I for example, advocate more STV style voting.

The video is slightly inaccurate. Even in the FPTP system that is the British democracy, the winner still needs >50% of the votes to win. The votes being those of the MPs. The party with the most MPs gets first dibs on forming a government. If they have more than 50% of the MPs, that's a majority by themselves, and they deserve to form a government. If they have less than 50%, they have to talk to other parties to get them over that mark. And even if they have more than 50%, they still have to have a margin over that to allow for dissent on controversial issues. Otherwise you have things like the Major government, which faced cross-bench revolts on a regular basis. Even the current government can face the same kind of paralysis if the Lib Dems concertedly withdrew their support, forcing the Tories to look elsewhere for their >50%.